Support for steam-condensers.



L. R. ALBERGER. SUPPORT FOR STEAM OONDENSEES. APPLICATION FILED JULY12, 1907.

Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

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L. R. ALBERGER.

SUPPORT FOR STEAM oommnssns.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1907.

916,404. Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

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LOUISR. ALBERGER, OF GREENWIOH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERGER CONDENSER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SUPPORT FOR STEAM-CONDENSERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

To, all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, LOUIS R. Amannonn, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Greenwich, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Steam-Condensers, of which the following is a specification.

My present improvement relates to novel and useful means for supporting a steam condenser of the type with which a centrifugal "or turbine pump is employed for the purpose of withdrawing water from the condenser.

The object of the invention is to enable the condenser to be so supported that its weight will not put any undue strain or pressure upon the more delicate portions of the pump, a danger which exists in certain existing methods of arranging the pump in combination with the condenser, and so that at the same time very easy access to the interior of the pump, and also to the pump headand other parts, may be permitted, it being-important that the supporting means for the condenser should not obstruct the easy. access to the pump.

Heretofore jet condensers have been supported upon an elbow provided with a foot, said foot being a vertical column and rest ing on a base, and said elbow being connected in turn with the suction of the centrifugal pump.

In my present invention, the foot or column is dispensed with, and lateral legs or supports, or their equivalents, substituted in lieu thereof.

The invention therefore may be said to consist in upholding the condensing chamber upon independent lateral legs, piers, masonry columns, uprights, or similar supports, in such a manner as to leave a free space below the condenser to be occupied by the connections between the pump and the condenser, thereby also permitting freer access than hitherto to the pump head and to the interior of the pump. And, also, the invention consists essentially in forming the said elbow which connects with the condenser, preferably as a part of the head of the pump, although it may be made separately.

Furthermore, the invention comprises the idea of providing a bed plate for jointly sup porting the centrifugal pump and the condenser legs or supports, and if desired the motor or driving engine, so that the whole device may form one compact integral and self-contained unit with all the parts ready of access without disturbing the alinement and relation of the principal elements one to the other. And the invention also consists in various details in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating my invention, l igure 1 is a side elevation of a centrifugal jet condenser provided with my improved supporting devices for the condenser chamber. F 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts throughout the figures of the drawings.

In order to illustrate the practical carrying out of my invention, I have delineated in the drawings a single specimen or ex ample of condenser, the same being of the jet type, and having therewith a centrifugal or turbine pump for withdrawing the condensing water as well as the steam condensed by the action of said water.

1 denotes this condenser chamber, having a steam inlet 2, opposite to which is an inlet 3 for the condensing water. At the top of the chamber 1 is an air cooler 14: and an air outlet 15, the latter being adapted to be connected with the vacuum or air pump. The lower end of the chamber 1 is provided with a conical lower portion 18 having a manhole 20 for access into the interior of the condenser. To the lower part 18 of the condenser is connected an elbow 19, preferably by means of bolts 11 passing through flanges, which elbow is likewise connected to the centrifugal or turbine pump 4-. 7 denotes the head of said pump which is held in place on the side thereof by means of a series of bolts 10. The elbow 19 is preferably made integral with the head 7 of the pump, and is so shown in the drawing, but I do not wish to be restricted to so making it, and it may be a separate part if desired.

As above stated, another method employed to support the elbow 19 and the condenser is by means of a footor column arranged centrally and vertically below the condenser, and connected to the upper part i of the elbow. But this kind of a support i has disadvantages in that the pump is not easily accessible, and also the great weight of tie condenser is not evenly upheld in such a manner as to entirely prevent racking and damaging strains, resulting from changes of temperature and movement of the piping connected to the condenser, from being felt detrimentally by certain of the delicate portions of the pump mechanism. My present invention, therefore, provides lateral legs or supports 16, it) which are independent of each other and are placed at opposite sides of the condenser, as shown in 2, said legs being preferably in a somewhat inclined position and resting on th base and being practically equidistant, from the center line of the condenser. The supports therefore are symmetrically-disposed with reference to the condenser and the center line thereof, so as to leave the space under the condenser free for approach to the pump and pump head, and said supports may obviously be of any kind and number. Suitable bearings on the lower portion the condenser chamber 1 rest upon the upper ends of these legs. By thus providing independent duplicate supports at the sides of the condenser, or symmetrically-disposed with reference to and outside of the center line of the condenser, instead of single one below atthe center, I not only more evenly and efiectually sustain the weight of the condenser, but I also permit a large open space below the condenser chamber which ca be occupied by the elbow l9 and certain portions of the pump, and this space also permits the manhole :20 to be placed where it can be more conveniently approached. The entire weight of the condenser, and suchpiping and fittings as are frequently attached to the exhaust and injection openings thereof, will be carried by these 16 directly to the bed plate or foundation 5. The cover or head 7 of the centrifugal pump may be removed easily in the space under the condenser by simply removing the bolts 10 in the main part of the pump, and likewise the bolts ll in the flange at the lower end of the condenser, and when this is done the shaft bearing may be removed for examination or overhauling and the impeller of the pump may be disconnected from the shaft 12 and withdrawn through the same space, if for any reason this should be found desirable or necessary. 13 designates one form of motor 'or engine for the operation of the pump 4:, said motor 13 driving the shaft 12, which in turn operates the iapeller within the pump casing. Shaft 12 has such necessary or convenient i bearings as'may be proper. lPump & may 1 be of any desired type and kind, but it is l drawing the water, of supports for preferably a centrifugal or turbine pump. It is provided with a discharge 8. It is also pi perly shaped with angular flanges or faces 6 to connect with the base 5. Pump 4 and legs it, are supported jointly by the base 5. The provision of the legs 16, furthermore, instead of the existing foot or column hereinabove alluded to, enables the pump a to be brought nearer to the axial vertical line of the condenser, it being brought tolerably close to the legs 16, and this permits a more successful operation of the centrifugal pump upon the water which it is pumpin =bviously, the bed plate 5 may be of a proper to carry he condenser legs and the centrifugal pump, or it may be extended far enough beyond these parts to contain or carry at the same time the motor or driving engine 13, as indi ated in Fig. 1.

Many modifications and changes in the construction and embodiment of my invention ma be made without exceeding the scope of the claims. I 7

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Lette s Patent, is:

l. The combination with a condenser, and a centrifugal or turbine pump for with drawing the water, of supports for the condenser, shaft bearing, pump head, and a pump impeller, said bearing, head and impeller being located and all removable in the space under the condenser.

T he combination with a condenser, and a centrifugal or turbine pump for withdrawing the water, having a removable head said pump and its head being located below the condenser, of an elbow between said head and the condenser, and a plurality of symmetrically disposed means for supporting the concenser at points where said supports will not interfere with access to the head.

The combination with a condenser, and fugal or turbine pump for Withdrawwater, of non-central. supporting means or the condenser which do not obstruct access beneath the condenser to the pump, a removable head for the pump, and an elbow between said head and the condenser. said pump with its head and elbow being located below the condenser.

The combination with a condenser, and a centrifugal or turbine pump for withthe condenser, and a pump head for the pump, said head being located and removable in the space under the condenser.

Signed at New York city, this 28th day i T n or Uune, 19o7.

LOUIS R. ALBERGER.

Witnesses:

i ar. E. BILLiNos, G. B. Scrmononn. 

